Amid a record-breaking year of Western bear conflict, the historically tolerant Red Lodge community is grappling with opposing views on how to live with the species — and if a 'fed bear' really should ...

Massive amounts of private money have poured into Montana’s elections for years. In 2020, the Steve Daines-Steve Bullock race for the U.S. Senate became the most expensive in st ...

Alaska officials accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting but finally dropped those charges this month.

Voters in the Equality State finally felt the threat to public lands had reached a critical point, observers say.

The photos in this essay, all taken from 1962 to 1968, reflect a post-World War II confidence that grand infrastructure could tame and re-engineer where “nature” fell short. Big projects were ...

Everything from sand to summer vacations is projected to change in the Grand Canyon as the river’s flows are reduced.

But as officials with the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) would discover and document in a lengthy investigative report, Steve Boren started the fires — at least 20 separate ignitions — on land owned ...

This story was produced by RE:PUBLIC and is co-published here by permission. MOAB, Utah – Between the red rock canyon walls of the Colorado River, Aniston Hanks, 20, stood in the water while her best ...

A Montana rancher wonders what is lost in her urge to share her Western life online.